Doctors and dentists in training - staff experience 2023: independent report

Response Rate

The overall response rate for DDiT 2023 was 33%. Whilst still a valid response rate, it is 4 percentage points below the DDiT 2022 response rate of 38% and 8 percentage points down on the 41% achieve in 2021.

In 2023 6,738 DDiT staff were sent a survey invitation and responses were received from 2,211 staff. The volume of surveys sent in 2023 is slightly above the volume sent in 2022 (+98), while the volume of responses is down in 2023 from 2022 (-323).

Staff taking part in DDiT are from 18 Boards with the majority of responses coming from the larger geographic Boards. Over half of all DDiT responses come from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (23%) and NHS Lothian (19%) and NHS Grampian (16%).

The other boards individually contributing over 5% of the responses are:

• NHS Tayside (10%)
• NHS Ayrshire & Arran (8%)
• NHS Lanarkshire (7%)

The remaining 11 boards collectively account for 17% of the DDiT responses.

Note: To protect anonymity data is not shown where the number of responses is less than 10 and so is combined for:

• Public Health Scotland
• NHS Orkney
• NHS Shetland
• NHS Western Isles
• The State Hospital